Month: December 2014

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas is always a nice time for me.  As a school librarian/teacher in the past, it means time off from work.  But it also means getting to see lots of family that I don’t get to see at other times of the year.  My sister who lives in NYC flies home for a week or […]

Posted December 25, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 10 Comments

New Year’s Read-a-Thon

   Since part of my plan for the COYER challenge is to read some books that I downloaded because they were free, I feel like this challenge, hosted by Fantasy is More Fun and Because Reading, will be a good one for me.  You can participate, whether you’re a COYER participant or not, and even […]

Posted December 23, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 1 Comment

Review: Frostfire by Amanda Hocking

First, thanks to St. Martin’s Griffin and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I’ve been a fan of Amanda Hocking since I downloaded a 99 cent e-book of the first book in the Trylle series, Switched.  I read that book while sitting in line waiting for one of the Harry […]

Posted December 22, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments